World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Free Mount Will Be Decided By Player Vote
The World of Warcraft: Shadowlands free mount will be decided by a player vote between several different options in advance of the expansion's launch.
The World of Warcraft: Shadowlands free mount will be decided by a player vote, as announced by Blizzard recently, and fans are already campaigning for their favored option across forums and social media posts. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is the upcoming expansion for Blizzard's long-running MMORPG franchise, and has been flagged by many veterans of the series for its promise, whether it be because of newly-implemented gameplay decisions or revisions to older content that seems promising.
While each World of Warcraft expansion pushes the series forward in some way or another, Shadowlands feels much more like a Cataclysm-level addition of content - the kind that shakes up not just the game's current content, but also its past offerings. Shadowlands will be the expansion that implements Blizzard's level squish, shrinking a maximum level cap of 120 all the way back down to 60. To complement this change, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' leveling experience has been totally reworked, with the goal of providing new players and veterans alike the ability to remain in one zone for most of their pre-Shadowlands experience to fully appreciate their stories and characters.
Of course, the World of Warcraft: Shadowlands free mount is a popular topic as well, since it will be provided to all players and, as it turns out, will be decided on by them as well. In a forum post, Blizzard officially announced five different WoW Shadowlands free mount options which can be voted on by Azeroth's greatest adventurers (and everyone else, too). Although none of the options came with finalized concept art because the team is still working on their finished designs, descriptions of what each World of Warcraft: Shadowlands free mount will look like were provided in the post. The options are: Wandering Ancient, Soaring Spelltome, Nerubian Swarmer, Curious Caterpillar, and Gooey Slimesaber.
The release date of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands might be this year, but the free Shadowlands mount won't be arriving until early 2021. The poll will be around until September 18, so fans have plenty of time to debate each other on which is the optimal choice. That being said, there does seem to be an early favorite in the form of the Gooey Slimesaber, a jelly version of a popular cat mount. Given that it's the internet, and one of the mount choices is a cat, it seems like a lock to be chosen.
Regardless of what players decide on for their World of Warcraft: Shadowlands free mount, the winner will be added to everyone's pet tab in Q1 2021, and it's going to be a welcome addition the new year of content from Blizzard. It's also a nice balance between all of the changes already coming to Shadowlands - pacing out the free Shadowlands mount apart from the slew of content coming with the expansion's release will let players appreciate it more.
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands releases on October 27, 2020 for Windows and Mac.